I don't know how you are in other parts of Southeast Asia, but I am always at a loss on the streets of Singapore, on the corner of Vietnam and on a sign in Malaysia. Although transliteration of things like coffee was widely used by clever ancestors in the early years of its spread, there is not much audio-visual barrier, even though Singaporeans always refer to coffee as Kopi, which is pronounced from Hokkienese.
2015-06-10 Boutique coffee culture basics common sense Changpin Southeast AsiaI don't know how you are in other parts of Southeast Asia, but I am always at a loss on the streets of Singapore, on the corner of Vietnam and on a sign in Malaysia. Although transliteration of things like coffee was widely used by clever ancestors in the early years of its spread, there is not much audio-visual barrier, even though Singaporeans always refer to coffee as Kopi, which is pronounced from Hokkienese.
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